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Penguin: Open Source Blockchain w/o Native Crypto

Design, Software

Yosemite X announces first open-source public blockchain without native cryptocurrency

Yosemite X, a blockchain technology company, today announced the release of its open-source public blockchain that operates without a native cryptocurrency, giving developers and businesses the ability to build solutions and reduce costs, without the price volatility of crypto.

This approach enables companies to reap the benefits of blockchain – greater transparency, enhanced security, increased efficiency, speed of transactions at scale – and pay for their network usage with more stable fiat currencies.

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Penguin: Amazon Abusing / Monetizing Open Source Cloud without Contribution — It Is Called “Strip Mining”

Cloud, Software

Open source cloud databases battle software ‘strip mining'

Cloud giants like AWS have adopted open source databases, causing Confluent, MongoDB and others to guard their assets the best way they know how: licensing.

“There is a new and unique dynamic with public cloud providers, particularly AWS, who take open source software and sell it as a service, often without contributing much of anything back to the community. There is even a name given to this: strip mining.”

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#GoogleGestapo: Open Standards End Facebook

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency, Software

Open standards can disrupt Facebook’s messaging monopoly

Facebook’s messaging services . . . run on closed standards and don’t play nice with platforms created by third parties.

Is there a way out? Pranesh Prakash – a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Fellow at the New America think tank – believes that the answer lies not in breaking up Facebook over privacy laws, but in competition, and regulators at the government level should demand Facebook use open standards for its messaging platforms.

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Penguin: Assessing the economic impact and business models of open source

Software

Assessing the economic impact and business models of open source

If you combine IBM's acquisition with Microsoft's buyout of GitHub last year, at the very least you could say that the open source game is changing. These events communicate an increasing interest from the enterprise space in open source technologies as bankable prospects, with big tech companies willing to drop serious cash to boost their name in the field and amongst communities. Also, it is for this reason – amongst others – that it has a decent amount of potential as a driver of the digital economy going forward.

Registration required, not recommended.  Just know that open source is becoming VERY profitable and will ultimately destroy Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Google, MeetUp, Microsoft, Oracle, and Twitter, among others.

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Penguin: Monetizing Open Source

Software

Open source has a problem with monetization, not AWS

Open sourcerors keep wrongly trying to blame AWS for their inability to effectively monetize open source software.

We have come a long, long way since open source really started to take off in the 2000s. Except, sadly, in how we monetize open source—that model is stuck in the 1980s.

…the real money is in offering services at scale AND in sufficient breadth that enterprises don't need a separate platform for each piece of software they'd like to use.

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